Improvement in egg-carriers



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J.L.STEVENS. Egg-Carriers.

Patented Dec. 29,1874

Nml58327.

INVENTOR I Attorneys TNE GRAPHIC CO-EKQTU'LITHQQXK4J PARK PLACE,NY

2 Shets Sheet 2 -'J. L. STEVENS.

- Egg-Barriers. N0.\58,327; Patented Dec. 29,1874.

I ESSES INVENTOR /6" y v i Attorneys NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. STEVENS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO BILLINGS, COBURN 8t 00., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT lN EGG-CARRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,327, dated December 29, 1874; application filed September 5, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. STEVENS, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Egg-Carriers; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists inthe construction and arrangement of an egg-carrier, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my egg carrier with the lid opened and box partially broken open to show the interior thereof. Figs. 2, 3, ande show the strips of which the trays are formed; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the trays.

My egg-carrier trays are each formed of three kinds of pasteboard strips, A, B, and D. The strips A are provided with an odd number of slots, a, running from one edge to or nearly to one-fourth the width from the other edge, as shown in Fig. 2. Two of these strips are used in each tray to lock the other strips together. The strip B is, in the center, provided with two short slots, 1), running on a line with each other, from opposite edges, about onefourth the width of the strip. In addition to these slots, the strip is provided with slots 1), running on each side of the center, from one edge only, one-half the width of the strip. An odd number of these strips is used in each tray. The strips D are provided with slots d, running alternately from opposite edges onehalf the width of the strip. An even number of these strips is used in each tray.

The strips B and D are first placed together by passing the strips B alternately from top and bottom into the strips D, the slots 1) and cl passing into each other in the usual manner. This leaves the slots 0 of the strips B unoccupied. Now, by passing the two strips A A into the slots 1) of the strips B-one from the top and the other from the bottom all the strips become locked in such a manner that none of the strips B D can be removed without first removing the locking-strips A.

The strips A A may be left separate, or be pasted together, as may be deemed most desirable'.

Between the trays in the egg-carrier box I place pasteboard sheets 0 O as partitions, and at the top and bottom I use mats Gr, made of flagging, dried grass, shavings, or other suitable material, woven or otherwise united together. The whole is inclosed in a box, IE, having a suitable lid, H.

The trays will fold up flat, so as to take but little room in transportation.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the strips B, having slots 6 b, and the strips D, having slots d, of the locking-strips A A, provided with the slots a, all substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of August, 1874..

JOHN L. STEVENS.

Witnesses J. M. Mason, H. A. HALL. 

